Agile Contracts in South London

Agile Software Development
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London requiring Agile skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Agile over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 4 1
Rank change year-on-year -8 -3 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 28 60 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 15.82% 25.86% 31.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.06% 27.03% 35.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 42 96
10th Percentile £463 £405 £450
25th Percentile £474 £430 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £584 £511 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.40% -7.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £656 £543 £694
90th Percentile £731 £599 £900
London median daily rate £585 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +1.74% -4.17% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £52.97
London median hourly rate £42.02 £52.50 £67.00
% change year-on-year -19.96% -21.64% +50.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

Agile falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 155 222 335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 87.57% 95.69% 88.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 153 266
10th Percentile £379 £256 £306
25th Percentile £463 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £649
90th Percentile £787 £630 £755
London median daily rate £550 £550 £593
% change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 13
10th Percentile - £17.00 £18.75
25th Percentile - £20.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £50.42
Median % change year-on-year -32.60% -53.39% +8.92%
75th Percentile £20.38 £77.19 -
90th Percentile £73.96 £83.75 £55.22
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.84 £37.34
% change year-on-year +22.13% -25.44% -0.43%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South London.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in South London

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in South London.

Daily rate trend for Agile in South London

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in South London over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in South London

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in South London.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in South London

Agile
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the South London region over the 6 months to 17 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Croydon -1 21 £583 +14.20% 7
Bromley -6 5 £738 +25.53% 8
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £650 - 5
Agile
London

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.14%) Confluence
1 2 (7.14%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) AWS
2 6 (21.43%) Serverless
3 4 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (10.71%) Amazon MSK
4 3 (10.71%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (10.71%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.57%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) PSTN
1 1 (3.57%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (39.29%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 6 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (10.71%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (10.71%) DynamoDB
4 3 (10.71%) Parquet
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (7.14%) Impala
5 2 (7.14%) MongoDB
5 2 (7.14%) RDBMS
5 2 (7.14%) Redis
6 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
6 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (53.57%) Jenkins
2 10 (35.71%) JUnit
3 9 (32.14%) Mockito
4 7 (25.00%) Git
5 5 (17.86%) Gradle
5 5 (17.86%) Liquibase
6 4 (14.29%) JIRA
6 4 (14.29%) SonarQube
7 3 (10.71%) Bitbucket
8 2 (7.14%) Artifactory
8 2 (7.14%) JMeter
8 2 (7.14%) Maven
8 2 (7.14%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (3.57%) Cypress.io
9 1 (3.57%) NUnit
9 1 (3.57%) Postman
9 1 (3.57%) REST Assured
9 1 (3.57%) Storybook
9 1 (3.57%) Subversion
9 1 (3.57%) Xcode
General
1 19 (67.86%) Public Sector
2 9 (32.14%) Finance
3 6 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (21.43%) Telecoms
4 5 (17.86%) Electronics
4 5 (17.86%) Manufacturing
4 5 (17.86%) Marketing
5 4 (14.29%) Banking
5 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
6 2 (7.14%) Financial Institution
6 2 (7.14%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.57%) Legal
7 1 (3.57%) Local Government
7 1 (3.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Developer
2 7 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Java Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Java Software Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Java Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Lead
4 4 (14.29%) Product Manager
5 3 (10.71%) Data Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Lead Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Lead Java Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Python Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Python Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Python Software Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) QA Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (35.71%) Spring
2 9 (32.14%) Kafka
2 9 (32.14%) Spring Boot
3 8 (28.57%) React
4 6 (21.43%) JSON
4 6 (21.43%) REST
5 5 (17.86%) OpenAPI
5 5 (17.86%) Swagger
6 4 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (14.29%) AngularJS
7 3 (10.71%) Apache Avro
7 3 (10.71%) Hibernate
7 3 (10.71%) HTML
7 3 (10.71%) SOAP
7 3 (10.71%) Web Services
8 2 (7.14%) Apache Camel
8 2 (7.14%) Bootstrap
8 2 (7.14%) JPA
8 2 (7.14%) jQuery
8 2 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Unix
2 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) CI/CD
2 10 (35.71%) DevOps
2 10 (35.71%) Microservices
2 10 (35.71%) TDD
3 9 (32.14%) Containerisation
3 9 (32.14%) Software Engineering
4 8 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (28.57%) Risk Management
5 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (21.43%) Migration
7 5 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (17.86%) Digital Marketing
7 5 (17.86%) Product Management
7 5 (17.86%) Programme Management
7 5 (17.86%) Scrum
7 5 (17.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 4 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
8 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) Java
2 9 (32.14%) SQL
3 8 (28.57%) Python
4 6 (21.43%) JavaScript
5 5 (17.86%) TypeScript
6 2 (7.14%) C#
6 2 (7.14%) Lua
6 2 (7.14%) Perl
6 2 (7.14%) PHP
6 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.57%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (64.29%) SC Cleared
1 18 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 10 (35.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Kibana
1 3 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.14%) Ansible
2 2 (7.14%) Grafana
2 2 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) SAP
2 2 (7.14%) Dynatrace
2 2 (7.14%) Splunk
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle